Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has been in England since 1975 and most ordained people take either Kelsang or Gyatso in their names .
2 The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns .
3 Contract discussions have been under way since early this year , according to West German sources .
4 Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school .
5 The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions .
6 Colin Calderwood has been with the club since their fourth division days , but has yet to sign a new contract for next season .
7 Tory Derek Lamberth said closure plans had been on the agenda for two years .
8 Another significant change in carp fishing technique has been in surface fishing .
9 Ianthe remembered that Miss Grimes had been to Spain for her holiday one year , but she supposed that she must have bought the wine specially when Ianthe had said she was coming to see her .
10 At the rally Chief Buthelezi called on the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to ‘ stop posturing ’ and join him at a series of public meetings to eradicate violence in areas where ANC and Inkatha supporters have been at war .
11 Maldom Bada had been under arrest since the alleged coup attempt of October 1991 [ see p. 38519 ] and his inclusion therefore signified his political rehabilitation .
12 Strong , colourful midfield player or striker , Andy Gray had been with the Palace as a schoolboy during the Terry Venables era at Selhurst Park , but disappeared into non-league soccer so that it was actually from Dulwich Hamlet that Manager Steve Coppell initially signed him for The Eagles in November 1984 .
13 Congress , G M B has been to the forefront of the campaign to ensure that the laws of this country are brought into line with European legislation .
14 Bob Hoskins ' co-star Dennis Hopper has been at loggerheads with Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton , demanding script rewrites .
15 Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university .
16 Police say a battle for territory between crack cocaine dealers has been behind a series of recent shootings in South London .
17 Since its ‘ theft ’ my living room has been under siege from Mark ‘ The Scoop ’ Crowe , the Argus sports hack .
18 Since enemy planes had been over the village , ‘ they have all lost their heads ’ .
19 Mrs. Browne had been at their Mayfair flat and seen them all off together .
20 He 's been in it for five years ( only he and Jean Boht have been with the show from the beginning ) and he 's proud of that , he says .
21 The Brigade positions had been under attack for the past four days and Nos. 3 , 4 , 6 , and 45 Royal Marine Commando had been having their share of casualties .
22 Daniel Digby , provost of the G-Mek Orbital , has issued a formal denial to allegations by Ayatollah Bakhtiar that fugitive graphic novelist Neil Gaiman has been in hiding in the facility , and has requested that the Pan-Islamic congress stand down the Inter-Satellite Ballistic Missiles currently targeted on them .
23 but fifty seven of you out of sixty three car owners have been in an accident , is that , yes
24 The leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock has been in the region to see a new housing development for elderly people .
25 Such events led greens to suspect that the Forest Service and timber industry people had been in cahoots , trying to determine not only how best to make the plan public , but also how best to ensure its demise .
26 In welcoming this commitment , Mr Bell pointed out that the substantially greater freedom which U.K. insurers have enjoyed in product design and in investment policy has been to the distinct benefit if their policy-holders in the past .
27 Suppose Mrs. McLoughlin had been at the scene of the accident ; according to conventionalism she would have a legal right to recover in virtue of past decisions .
28 In this case Miss T. had been during her childhood subjected to the religious beliefs of her mother and in her weakened medical condition , in pain , and under the influence of the drugs administered to assist her , the pressure from her mother was likely to have a considerably enhanced effect .
29 A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter .
30 Richard Nixon had been in the House and the Senate and vice-president for eight years , but ultimately he proved to be a disastrous president .
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